Effects of multilevel security on real-time applications

Author

Clark, Raymond K. ; Greenberg, Ira B. ; Boucher, Peter K. ; Lunt, Teresa F. ; Neumann, Peter G. ; Wells, Douglas M. ; Jenson, E.D.

Author_Institution

Concurrent Comput. Corp., Westford, MA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

6-10 Dec 1993

Firstpage

120

Lastpage

129

Abstract

This paper presents a brief overview of a notional airborne application scenario that requires both multilevel security and real-time processing. It was used to guide decisions related to formation of the security policy interpretation, the operating system interface, and the system services design for a multilevel secure real-time distributed operating system (MLS RT DOS) called Secure Alpha. We compare secure and nonsecure application designs for the scenario to assess the effects of MLS RT DOS security features on the structure of the application. The comparison reveals that the security features make real-time scheduling and the construction of robust applications more difficult for this scenario

Keywords

distributed processing; operating systems (computers); real-time systems; scheduling; security of data; MLS RT DOS; Secure Alpha; airborne application; application designs; multilevel secure real-time distributed operating system; multilevel security; operating system interface; real-time applications; robust applications; security policy interpretation; system services design; Application software; Computer security; Concurrent computing; Military aircraft; Multilevel systems; Operating systems; Real time systems; Robustness; Scheduling; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Security Applications Conference, 1993. Proceedings., Ninth Annual

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4330-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSAC.1993.315447

Filename

315447